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Someone told David, "Ahithophel is helping Absalom plot against you!" David said, "Please, LORD, keep Ahithophel's plans from working!"

By this time, Absalom, Ahithophel, and the others had reached Jerusalem.

Absalom and the others liked Hushai's plan better than Ahithophel's plan. This was because the LORD had decided to keep Ahithophel's plan from working and to cause trouble for Absalom.

When Ahithophel saw that Absalom and the leaders of Israel were not going to follow his advice, he saddled his donkey and rode back to his home in Gilo. He told his family and servants what to do. Then he hanged himself, and they buried him in his family's burial place.

They told the people that it was a day to go without eating, and when they all came together, they seated Naboth at the front.

Ahithophel and Hushai the Archite were two of David's advisors.

Have pity, LORD! Heal me, so I can pay them back.

My most trusted friend has turned against me, though he ate at my table.

The LORD is disgusted by gifts from the wicked, but it makes him happy when his people pray.

The Lord despises the offerings of wicked people with evil motives.

People of Judah, you bring me incense from Sheba and spices from distant lands. You offer sacrifices of all kinds. But why bother? I hate these gifts of yours!

Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here, then bring seven bulls and seven rams."

So he took Balaam to a field on top of Mount Pisgah where lookouts were stationed. Then he built seven altars there and sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one.

After Balak had done what Balaam asked, he sacrificed a bull and a ram on each altar.

I am not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But what the Scriptures say must come true. And they say, "The man who ate with me has turned against me!"

Such people claim to know God, but their actions prove that they really don't. They are disgusting. They won't obey God, and they are too worthless to do anything good.




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